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Box 11

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Contains 14 Results:

Correspondence, 1850-03-30 - 1850-04-15

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, patent disputes, stocks, finances; Magnetic Telegraph Company. Personal names: Smith, F.O.J.; Speed, J.J.; Morse, Samuel F.B. Geography: New York City

Dates: 1850-03-30 - 1850-04-15
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-05-09 - 1850-05-22

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

May 18, 1850. Statement describing the operations of the New York telegraph station, including transcriptions of messages and comment on illicit use of the line. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wood, M.L. Geography: New York City

Dates: 1850-05-09 - 1850-05-22
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-07-05 - 1850-07-19

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

July 17, 1850. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "If the experience of the past is any criterion for the future, the grim specter poverty will always stand staring me in the face. At all events I have to meet his ugly visage daily?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, disputes concerning western lines. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Robinson, Charles B.; Faxton, Theodore; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Ely, Charles Geography: Detroit; New York City

Dates: 1850-07-05 - 1850-07-19
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-07-20 - 1850-07-31

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions; Ithaca real estate Personal names: Munn, W.H.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Speed, J.J. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; New York City

Dates: 1850-07-20 - 1850-07-31
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-08-29 - 1850-09-20

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Robinson, Charles B.; Wood, M.B.; Vail, Hector; Tillotson, D.T. Geography:

Dates: 1850-08-29 - 1850-09-20
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-11-02 - 1850-11-25

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies. Personal names: Robinson, Charles B.; Tillotson, D.T.; Ingersoll, Charles M.; Speed, J.J.; Smith, F.O.J. Geography: New York City; Newburgh, N.Y.

Dates: 1850-11-02 - 1850-11-25
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-04-16 - 1850-05-08

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents April 20, 1850. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I am very sorry to hear that you are so strained in your money matters. Though it is not very much to be wondered at considering from whence you expect money." April 1850. Letters from Speed describing possible improvements to telegraph technology, and a method of preventing steam boilers from exploding. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, patent disputes, stocks, finances Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo...
Dates: 1850-04-16 - 1850-05-08
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-05-25 - 1850-06-11

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

May 27, 1850. Letter from Speed describing possible improvements to telegraph technology. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, New York City operations, Erie & Michigan line. Personal names: Tyler, A.L.; Robinson, Charles B.; Speed, J.J.; Beebe, Jeremiah S. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; New York City; Fredonia, N.Y.

Dates: 1850-05-25 - 1850-06-11
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-06-12 - 1850-07-04

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, New York City operations, stocks. Personal names: Robinson, Charles B.; Kendall, Amos; Smith, F.O.J.; Bagley, B.; Speed, J.J. Geography: New York City

Dates: 1850-06-12 - 1850-07-04
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

Correspondence, 1850-08-01 - 1850-08-28

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines, difficulties and breakdowns of lines, rates; wheat. Personal names: Ely, Charles; Tillotson, D.T.; Hotchkiss, S.W.; Speed, J.J.; Vail, Hector; Tillotson, D.T. Geography:

Dates: 1850-08-01 - 1850-08-28
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 1-1-1, Ezra Cornell papers / Series I: Correspondence / Ezra Cornell Correspondence

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